2014 F1 cars

The Toro Rosso STR9 is the team’s first car with Renault power. Here are pictures of their 2014 contender at its launch at Jerez.

Toro Rosso STR9, Jerez, 2014

Jean-Eric Vergne, Toro Rosso STR9, Jerez, 2014

Daniil Kvyat, Jean-Eric Vergne, Toro Rosso STR9, Jerez, 2014

Toro Rosso STR9, Jerez, 2014

Toro Rosso STR9 nose, Jerez, 2014

Toro Rosso STR9 rear, Jerez, 2014

Toro Rosso STR9, Jerez, 2014

Toro Rosso STR9, Jerez, 2014

Toro Rosso STR9, Jerez, 2014

Team principal Franz Tost said the team had made their earliest ever start on the new car: “In 2014 the key parameters for success will be finding the best balance between deploying the power of the engine and managing the 100kg fuel limit per race, the use of the two energy recovery systems and, just as in the past, the tyres.

“Apart from the new rules, at Toro Rosso we have also had to adapt to a new engine partner and we are looking forward to working with Renault. One final new element for us is on the driver side, as Daniil Kvyat joins us to race alongside Jean-Eric Vergne. Both are very talented and we expect good things from them.

“With all these changes, some that affect everyone, others that are specific to Toro Rosso, it is really difficult to set targets or make predictions. However, it is clear we have to improve our performance and make a step forward.”

@mads
i didnt say they did!
i just dont belive adrian newey would give the same nose to there sister team, end of the day desginers want the nose as high as possible, this gives good clean air to run the floor and get it round the sidepods to make the diffusser run as best as possible.
you lower the nose practictly to the ground you now have to find a way to get the air round it and the active the floor. ferrari have it wrong merc and torro rosso have quite good noses, willams, if thats how they run with it is a bit silly, god knows if that lotus picture is true, if it is then, well im shocked.
also i like the whole lower nose as it allows drivers to sit more upright, which i think will allow better driving style/postion
so as said i dont think newey would allow torro rosso to run the same nose being that get the nose right and you have the downforce right,

@mat-k
Aah okay I didn’t think of your post that way.
But Newey isn’t designing the Torro Rosso.
That is the job of James Key and his designers. If they think direction A is better then direction B, then they will pick A.
Newey and his co-workers can come to exactly the same conclusion, without any collaborate effort.
And let’s not overestimate Newey. He is brilliant, but that doesn’t mean that he always gets it right and doesn’t resort to copying ideas from other teams.

I haven’t complained about the noses too much yet, but this one I definitely don’t like. It’s like it’s just stuck on there! And the livery isn’t helping, especially not how the gold stops like it’s last years’ nose.

…and this is almost exactly how the nose looks like without any kind of vanity panel as shown by Scarbs on “TRE”. I have a feeling that the Red Bull will sport something very similar if so this is the less atractive interpretation of the rules and to be honest unlike the McLaren or the Lotus or the Ferrari this is far uglier than the stepped nose, let’s wait and see what’s going to be said later today.

It’s a fairly conservative approach, which is really to be expected. The teams know there is a lot to play for this year with the new engine regulations, so the midfield teams are probably not taking a lot of risks in terms of design.

The livery is terrible. Nothing works together. The bull on the engine cover is noisy. The Red Bull logo on the sidepod is obnoxious . The red rear wing looks terribly out of place. The gold not ending at the tip doesn’t look right. The red/gold design in front of the cockpit looks like a generic need for speed decal. The shade of gold they use does not complement the blue.

Better, certainly. It still suffers from being a blue car with red logos and yellowish highlights. It’s cleaner, but still just a neutered RBR livery. If Red Bull weren’t on the grid already I’d actually really like yours. But I don’t want 4 cars out there to look the same.